Sleigh-runner



T. -E. LEWIS.

SLEIGH RUNNER.

(No Model.)

N0. 895,398. Patented Jan. 1, 1889.

t1 kne THOMAS E. LEWTS, OE DUBLTN, TEX

SLElGl-l-RUNNER.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,398, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed July 5, 1888. Serial No. 279,070 (No model.)

To all whom it 71107 concern Be it known that I, THOMAS E. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dublin, in the county of Erath, State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleigh-Runners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawin This invention has relation to runners for vehicles, whereby the same are adapted for traveling in snow.

Among the objects in view are to provide an inexpensive serviceable runner which is adjustable to lit wheels of 'varyin g distances apart, which is light and durable, and which can be easily and qu ickl v applied to the wheels or removed therefrom and packed under a seat of a vehicle or other convenient place, and thus carried aboutfor use in snow-storms, or removed from the wheels should the snow disappear during a journey.

Other objects and advantages of the invcnlion. will hereinaftm appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, l igure .l represents a side elevation of a pair of wheels, each provided with a runner constructed in accord.- ance with my invention; and Fig. 2 represents two runnersections in perspective opora tively (*UIIIIOCl'Htl.

Like numerals indicate like parts in both of the tigu res.

In practicing my lllYtllllUll lprovide a section, 1, for each wheelof the vehicle and form the same ol U-shaped metal, or, if desired, it may be of tubing having a longitudinal sec-- tion removed, so that the runner is adapted for emln'aeing the rim of the wheel to. Each of the 'lllllllOF-stllltmr l is curved at its outer end, as at 2, to partake of the circular contour of the wheel, and is provided at certain distances apart with screw-threaded lugs 33, which projectl'rom the ta'lges of the sections inwardly and bevond the inner periphery of j the rim. of the wheel .1 t3. 'lhese lugs 3 are ar- I ranged opposite each other, and may or may not be formed as apart of the llll'll'lGl' fsOCl'lOll. W hen in position upon a wheel, as shown in Fig. l, the sections are seci'lreal to the rim of i the same by perforated plates or links l-one l for each pair of lugsand which take over the lugs and bind the runners to the rim through the medium of nuts 5. The sections are made somewhat shorter than. the distance between the wheels, so that when mounted in position there is usually left a space between the inner ends of said sections. For this purpose, and for the purpose of making them adj ustable and keeping them in line with each other, a teuon, (i, is provided, which may be either independent of the two sections and held by set-screws 7* or formed upon one and adapted to take into the other of said sections, the sections being closed at their inner upper faces, as at 7, for the reception of the tenon. By this construction the runners are made continuous and are prevented from getting out of alignment with each other.

For the purpose of locking the wheels against movement and keeping them in a line with each other, and also for the purpose of an additional. central brace for the runner- I sections, I provide an adjustable lock to be applied to each pair of wheels, and the same consists of two overlapping perforated adj ustable plates, 9, which are held in, an adjusted position with relation to each other by the set-bolt .l. From the outer ends of each of these plates there project staples 10 for embracing iho rim, the ends of \vhichare screwthreaded and connected by perforated plates ll, which are held in position by nuts impending from eyes 1 formed on the under side of each of the plates, are loosely-connected hook-arms 14-, the lower ends of which take into e 'es 15, formed on the closed inner ends, 7, of each of the rminer-sections. By this arrangement it is apparent that by adjusting the plates 8 the runner, as a whole, is adapted for use in eonneetion with vehicles the wheels of which are dil'fertmt distances apart, and that, as'is often the case, should a person find the snow leavinghinuby simply loosening the adj listing-screw EJ and separating the adjustable coupling-plates and removing the nuts 0 and plates l, the runners ma be removed from the wheels and closely packed under a bu gg vseat or other avaih-ible space.

llaving described my invention, what I claim is 1. A sleigh-runner formed of two adjustable sections adapted to embrace the rim of a wheel,

one of said sections being provided with atenon adapted to enter the opposite section, substantially as specified.

2. A sleigh-runner comprising two sections adapted to embrace the rim of a wheel, in combination with an intermediate tenon for entering each of said sections, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the wheels of a vehicle, of two runner-sections provided with an intermediate tenon entering each of said sections and of an intermediate coupling device for locking the wheels again st movement.

4. The combination,with the wheels of a vehicle, of a runner-section for each of U shape and adapted to embrace the rims of said wheels an ii'iterniediaie tenon entering each of the scctioi'is, and a con 'iling device connected to the sections and to the wheels and comprising two overlapping plates, substantially as specified.

The sections 1, curved, as at 2, and provided with the oppositely-located lugs 3, in combination with the tenon 6, Wheels 16, plates 4:, and nuts 5, substantially as specified.

(5. The combination, with the wheels 16 and the runn er-sections 1,constructed as described, of the overlapping plates 8, staples 10, plates 11, nuts 12, the adj Listing-bolt 9, an d the hookarms 14, substantially as specified.

ln testimony whereof I aifix. my signature in presence O'li two witnesses.

THOMAS E. LEWIS.

Witnesses:

J. J. McLEMoRE, I. ll. HUMBLE. 

